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ARTICLE TAG
3/7/2024
Nancy Marie Spears
Mark Fiddler has focused much of the past decade on attempts to dismantle the law that aims to preserve Indigenous families and tribes.
9/21/2023
Michael Fitzgerald
A federal appeals court has granted New York City foster youth the go-ahead to proceed with their lawsuit against the city and state child welfare agencies, overturning a lower court ruling denying them class-action status.
8/23/2023
Jeremy Loudenback
A lawsuit filed by public interest attorneys alleged the county and state have failed to provide safe housing and mental health services for thousands of transition-age foster youth.
8/17/2023
Sara Tiano
Mary S. Washington intends to sue Franklin County, Ohio, saying the way guards handled her son after a fight worsened his injuries.
John Kelly
A new lawsuit alleges Indiana failed to provide necessary services to foster children and left them in placements it knew were dangerous.
8/9/2023
Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act, state courts have still fielded challenges to the law.
6/29/2023
After Sacramento County housed dozens of foster youth at a former juvenile hall, a judge has ordered five years of court supervision.
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6/27/2023
Annie Sciacca
An exasperated federal judge rebuked Texas child welfare leaders yet again, saying they do more to protect their bureaucracy than children.
6/21/2023
The Imprint's Q+A with Shannon Smith of the ICWA Law Center on the implications of the Supreme Court's important ruling.
6/1/2023
San Bernardino County’s Child and Family Services has been sharply rebuked for years by civil grand juries before a federal lawsuit was filed in May 2023. Photo by J. Stephen Conn, Creative Commons License 2.0.